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Having finished the survey of every the said baronies within the said county according to the aforementioned rules and instructions given you, you are to cause the same to bee fairly ingrossed in one or more bookes, setting down the survey of each barony by itself, and to return the same, attested under your hands, or the hands of any three or more of you, together with this commission and instructions, close sealed up, to the surveyor-generall, and a duplicate thereof, in like manner fairly ingrossed, attested, and sealed up, to the register for forfeited lands in Ireland, at Dublin, together with all records, evidences, and writings which shall come to your hands concerning the premisses or any part of them. In the returne, transcription, or making up of which survey, or in any other thing relating to the premisses, you are further to observe such instructions as shall bee sent you by the said commissioners of the Commonwealth, or by the surveyor-generall.
You are to use all expedition in the execution of the aforementioned instructions, that the service of the Commonwealth may not bee retarded thereby; and for the more effectuall performance of the severall duties herein directed, you are hereby authorized to imploy such and so many persons under you for writing, ingrossing, and transcribing of such depositions, surveys, and duplicates, as you are to take and returne by vertue of the above said commission, and to give to each of them such allowance as you shall think fit, provided no unnecessary or immoderate charge bee contracted thereby upon the Commonwealth; and that no one person receive for his paines in writing or transcribing the depositions and surveys as aforesaid above the rate of twenty shillings per week.
Lastly, you are not without speciall lycense or order in writing from the said commissioners to discover to any person the particular values, extent, or the like certeinties of the premisses to bee by you surveyed, according to this commission, other then what was before directed to such as shall bee appointed to admeasure any part of the said premisses, nor to keep any coppies of the same with your selves or with any of those that shall bee imployed by you.
Dublin, 2 June, 1654.
C. F. (Charles Fleetwood.)
M. C. (Miles Corbett.)
J. J.(John Jones.)
VII.
You are forthwith to repayre unto the said county, there to demand and receive from Robert Cox, Wm. Ramsey, Samuell Clearke, and Thomas Robinson, Esqrs., or any three or more of
- ↑ From the Record Branch of the Paymaster of Civil Services' Office.
